Essentially, steampunk is a fictional story set in, or evocative of, the 19th century, often in but not limited to Victorian England, and including real world devices created ahead of their time and/or imaginary devices based on prevailing theories of the era and/or prevalent ideas of the supernatural.

Disney's 1954 cinematic vision of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a classic example of the steampunk aesthetic.

The steampunk community has grown beyond it's origins in literature to include creative expressions of those same narrative ideas. Today, this includes fashions which combine 19th century design styles with more modern and fantasy design elements. Artwork of all kinds display the visual aspect of steampunk ideas, including prints, sculpture, and modifications to existing products.

New books and movies are being released more frequently and the community also comes together in blogs, forums, conventions, and local groups.

Read - Odd Men Out by Matt Betts , The Civil War has ended but not because the South surrendered, instead it's on hold while both sides face a new enemy-the chewers, dead men who've come back to life. Cyrus Joseph Spencer didn't fight in the war and couldn't care less about the United Nations of America that resulted from it. His main concern is making money and protecting his crew from all manner of danger. But when tragedy strikes he's forced to take shelter onboard a dirigible piloted by the U.N.'s peace-keeping force. It's soon apparent that many more dangers are lurking and Cyrus must decide whether to throw in with strangers in a desperate bid to protect the country or cast off on his own.

Read - Steampunk Iron-on Transfer Patterns by Ramona Szczerba , A fabulous archive of wearable art, this collection features more than 40 cool and witty images that will add a fashionable flair to clothes and other fabric items. Suitable for embellishing jackets, corsets, handbags, pillows, and other cloth surfaces, the easy-to-apply transfers feature stylized robots, blimps, clock faces, and a host of other mash-up motifs.

Read - Fall of Sky City by S. M. Blooding , In a world governed by the opposing forces of the mystical House of Tarot and the tribal Great Families, Synn is caught in the crossfire. He witnesses the slaughter of innocent people, and the devastating murder of his father. This act awakens his Mark of power, a Mark greater than any the world has seen in a very long time.

Read - Steampunk Coloring Book by Steven E. Metze , This book contains a ready-to-color collection of the works of Bill Bricker and Mizael Oliveira from the entire line of Über Goober steampunk games and source books, including the original Über RPG Steampunk, Urban Steampunk, Uncharted Steampunk, Universal Airship Combat System, and the first self contained scenario, Umbrage of the Automaton.

Read - Steampunk Apothecary: Create Enchanting Jewellery and Accessories by Jema Hewitt , chronicles the fantastic journey of Emilly Ladybird as she searches out strange artifacts for her employers, Dickens and Rivett. Along the way, she encounters an array of astounding characters and visions – all of which revolve around the searched-for artifact. Enjoy a fantasy packed with unexpected discoveries. In this quasi-travel journal, Emilly pens her observations and shares her exploits with the bravado and pluck of a true Victorian heroine.

Read - Extracted by Sherry D. Ficklin / Tyler H. Jolley , The Tesla Institute is a premier academy that trains young time travelers called Rifters. Created by Nicola Tesla, the Institute seeks special individuals who can help preserve the time stream against those who try to alter it. The Hollows is a rogue band of Rifters who tear through time with little care for the consequences. Armed with their own group of lost teens--their only desire to find Tesla and put an end to his corruption of the time stream.

Read - Prodigal and Riven by Tyler H. Jolley / Sherry D. Ficklin , In a battle for control of the time stream, the past and the future will collide, either saving mankind—or destroying it. The Tesla Institute stands on one side of the battle. Controlled by the mind of one of the greatest inventors in history, the Institute recruits gifted, young time travelers called Rifters. Those who survive his training are sent into history with the mission to preserve the time stream, recruit more of their kind, and better humanity through subtle, controlled event manipulation.

Read - Revenge of the Mad Scientist by Lara Nance , When Lady Arabella Trunkett’s father, the High Lord Minister of Urbannia is kidnapped, all clues point to the mysterious country of Gandiss and the world is thrown into political upheaval. Arabella is convinced the more sinister nation of Carabarras is to blame, urged on by a mad scientist seeking revenge. So, she sets out on a perilous airship journey across a variety of exotic locales to save him, and halt the potential world war. But air-pirates, secret assassins and slave traders aren’t her only trials. The fickle hand of fate has made the captain of the only airship available for charter, the man who left her at the altar. For eight years she's wanted nothing more than to see him dead. Now he's her only hope.

Read - Tales of the Airship Neverland: A Steampunk Fairytale by John R. White , Grand Admiral Winifred Darling has just been promoted to command the entire defenses of The Brytish Admiralty. Her first assignment is to defend the Kingdom against the return of the disgraced exile Captain James Hooker. Allied with a fleet of she-pirates and his eldritch paramour, the witch Elspeth, Hooker is bent on the destruction of the ruling family including the the infant Peter, Prince of the Air Nation. Windy will soon find that it is she that is on the run, aided only by her loyal crew and the mysterious inventions of one Nikola Tesla. Eighteen years later, the crew of the Airship Neverland will be tested as never before.

Read - I, Nemo by J. Dharma / Deanna Windham , Jonathan de Chevalier Mason had it all: a promising career as a naval architect for Her Majesty's navy, a beautiful wife and two children. Two of his new revolutionary ironclads were sending shockwaves rippling through the navies of the British Empire's European and American rivals. But Jonathan has designed another weapon--a super weapon so terrible that whoever possesses it will rule the world. And no one wants it more than the very people Jonathan works for--the British government. For reasons of his own, Jonathan has no intention of ever allowing the weapon to see the light of day. On a fog shrouded night he is arrested on trumped up charges, convicted by a secret court, and then packed off to Belial Island to toil ceaselessly in its steaming jungle swamps. Then fortune smiles on Jonathan when he encounters a frail elderly French priest and his little band of followers. Together the two men hatch a plot to escape and forever be free of the tyrannical governments that imprisoned them. But Jonathan has a score to settle and soon his betrayers will feel his wrath.

Read - Clockwork Looking Glass: A Heart of Bronze Novel by Michael J. Rigg , Clockwork Looking Glass follows the journey of “Alice” as she struggles to make sense of her surroundings, piecing them together with the strange visions and nightmares that are her only link to who she really is. With the help of a dashing Confederate officer, a teenage witch and a paranoid manservant, Alice soon discovers that this world of airships and Tesla towers is prowled by ghastly magic-wielding monsters, ghostlike “Clockwork Carpenters,” and the cannibalistic greed of corporations like Thorne & Wolfe.

Read - A Soul's Worth by T. S. Barnett , Warren Hayward makes a good living by selling startlingly lifelike automatons to the super-wealthy of Victorian London. The only problem is that they aren’t automatons at all. They’re golems given life by witchcraft--and each one costs a human soul. Warren’s road is paved with good intentions, but blood is the price of keeping his love secret and safe, and demand is high. The business will lead him into the hedonism and power of high society, and being in the spotlight can drive a man to do desperate things. With secrets, blood, and dangerous magic taking over his life, Warren risks losing himself for the sake of his love. Is there room for humanity when your business is death, and can a man remember why he started a journey when he can no longer see the start?

Read - A Fire from the Sky by D. R. Usual , The Republic of Texas, 1862: Fourteen year old Gillian Ward -- mechanician, horsewoman, and darned good shot with a rifle -- wants nothing more than to ride the range and care for the steam lines which power the Republic. When global war threatens, however, Gilly's parents are summoned to England. Soldiers from New Spain soon arrive in west Texas, intent on kidnapping Gilly. Chased across the Republic, Gilly and her friends team up with a wandering knight and discover a devastating weapon the Spanish have built in the Indian Territory.

Read - Unseemly Science by Rod Duncan , In the divided land of England, Elizabeth Barnabus has been living a double life - as both herself and as her brother, the private detective. There is a new charitable organisation in town, run by some highly respectable women. But something doesn't feel right to Elizabeth. Perhaps it is time for her fictional brother to come out of retirement for one last case.

Read - The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter by Rod Duncan , Elizabeth Barnabus lives a double life – as herself and as her brother, the private detective. She is trying to solve the mystery of a disappearing aristocrat and a hoard of arcane machines. In her way stand the rogues, freaks and self-proclaimed alchemists of a travelling circus. But when she comes up against an agent of the all-powerful Patent Office, her life and the course of history will begin to change. And not necessarily for the better…

Steampunk Town Hidden Objects web browser game, If you like mysteries, you are in the right place! On levels 1, 3 and 5, you have 5 minutes and 3 hints to find the objects beneath the scene hidden in each scene. On levels 2 and 4, you must find the 10 differences between the 2 side by side scenes. You have 5 minutes and 3 hints for each level. Are you ready? Have fun finding Steampunk Town Hidden Objects!

Hand-Crafted Steampunk Costumes From Old Parts For Movies, "I create Steampunk Artwork, clothing, gadgets and props for photoshoots and filming. Its my hobby and I do it in my spare-time. There is no commercial purpose behind, I do it because its my passion. I try to use only authentic materials, such as old leather, steel, brass, copper, wood and glass. Nearly nothing is glued, most parts are reversible connected with screws."

Kickstarter - The Tumbleweed Zephyr by Pork Filled Productions, This Old West sci-fi adventure play returns to the thrilling, steampunk-inspired universe of our 2013 production, The Clockwork Professor. Two brothers, Atticus and Kai, climb aboard the Tumbleweed Zephyr, a transcontinental train headed out of New Providence for the wilds of the Western Territories. But what starts as a simple journey by rail soon veers off track, with airship bandit raids, twists of fate, wayward sparks of romance, and the lonely call of a train whistle echoing across the clear desert sky. Ends July 17

Kickstarter - Space 1889: The Secret of Phobos - a Victorian Sci-Fi movie by Mháire Stritter, A Victorian Sci-Fi-Adventure set in the thrilling world of the famous roleplaying game Space 1889 - CGI free and filmed on location. Based on the successful tabletop roleplaying game Space 1889. It's going to be an old fashioned adventure flick in a Victorian sci-fi setting, merging historical reality with a bit of Steampunkt and Pulp. This low budget film will be made without the use of CGI – we will be using practical effects like models instead. It won't be shot in front of a green screen, but on location in deserts, old cities and jungles across Europe and beyond. It's going to be a good old adventure movie like back in the 80ies, when the monsters were made of rubber and the backgrounds were real.

Dishonored 2 game trailer - steampunk redux., Bethesda Softworks and Arkane Studios are working on Dishonored 2, their steampunk first-person action stealth game and follow-up to Dishonored, slated for a Spring 2016 release on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC.

Tales from the Archives IV — Five, The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences has many forgotten stories in its Archives. Stories of madcap adventures in all corners of the Empire, dark doings in hidden places, and mysterious devices and artifacts that the everyday citizen should never become aware of for fear it would quite undo their minds.

Vintage Tomorrows steapunk documentary previewing at SDCC, 7/11, What is steampunk, and why is it suddenly everywhere? The documentary examines the steampunk movement's origins, explosive growth, and cultural significance. What can we learn about today and tomorrow from steampunk's playful visions of yesteryear? Participating panelists include Byrd McDonald (director) and Alan Winston (editor).

Kickstarter - The Sisters De Fleur Graphic Novel by Bill Cochran and Joshua Braun, Sisters De Fleur is a graphic novel with a steampunk western setting, on an alternative Earth, some time around the turn of the century. It follows two sisters, Rose and Violet, on their quest to get a stolen package to a hidden rebel base. Ends July 12

Read - King of the Cracksmen: A Steampunk Entertainment by Dennis O'Flaherty , The year is 1877. Automatons and steam-powered dirigible gunships have transformed the United States in the aftermath of the Civil War. The country is being run as a police state by his former secretary of war Edwin Stanton, a power-hungry criminal who rules with an iron fist. Liam McCool is an outlaw, known among other crooks as King of the Cracksmen. But his glory days as a safecracker and the head of a powerful New York gang end when he’s caught red-handed. Threatened with prison unless he informs on his own brethren fighting a guerilla war against Stanton’s tyranny, McCool’s been biding his time, trying to keeping the heat off him long enough to escape to San Francisco with his sweetheart Maggie.

Read - Brotherhood of the Strange by Michael T. Richie / Grant S. Wilson , Soar through the Aether on the Kingship amidst uplands and aetherships! Join the crew as they struggle to aid the scientist Degory Priest in exposing the nefarious plot of the Hand of Paris as it corrupts the wisdom and benevolence of the ancient order that is the Brotherhood of the Strange.

Read - Legenderry 1: A Steampunk Adventure by Bill Willingham , A mysterious woman named Magna Spadarossa searches the many kingdoms of her Steampunk world to find her missing sister, Sonja... but she's pursued by strange and dastardly villains. Thankfully, each glamorous airship, clockwork city, and primordial jungle hosts a brave hero to aid in her quest! Bill Willingham, the bestselling author of DC/Vertigo's Fables, reimagines the most iconic characters in the Dynamite stable in a self-contained Steampunk universe!

Read - Of Brass and Magic by A. L. Kessler , New Editions of A.L. Kessler's two steampunk short stories!Of Souls and Steam:Dead bodies, metal giants, and magic are a typical day for Maryanne Jennings. Specializing in strange and unusual cases, it’s her job to figure out what could be causing the mayhem in her city. Of Fate and Gears:Felisa has no choice but to act as the being humans call Fate. It was her punishment for escaping her death as a human. With the help of a mechanical fairy, Felisa has to guide a thief named Luke to his own fate to free herself.

Read - Nuts & Bolts: Industrial Jewelry in the Steampunk Style by Marthe Le Van , Those with a taste for modern jewelry, including steampunk fashionistas, will treasure this how-to guide to designing striking ornaments. In keeping with steampunk's do-it-yourself spirit, this manual shows how to use tubes, rods, metal sheets, and other industrial items to create chic jewelry. Comprehensive instructions for 24 projects include lists of tools and parts as well as illustrated directions for assembly.

Indiegogo - The Dolls of New Albion: A Steampunk Opera, Fund the US premiere of Paul Shapera's The Dolls of New Albion: A Steampunk Opera. The show revolves around the soul of a human being that is trapped in a mechanical artifice. The show grapples with the questions of: What is a human? What is humanity? What are our needs? How do we define ourselves? These questions are explored through a drama of romance, heartbreak, and death.

Kickstarter - Steamroll: a steampunk puzzle and strategy game by Jordi Rovira i Bonet, Steamroll is a puzzle and strategy game with a touch of arcade action and adventure. We like to say it takes elements from Portal, from the classic Marble Madness and from minigolf games. It creates a steam-punk atmosphere where you will have to solve puzzles by designing and shooting Steamballs from your vehicle to create ramps, walls, activate triggers, blow things away, and more. Steamroll is being developed using Unreal Engine 4 for Windows, Linux and Mac, and we plan to complete it this September. We are also targetting the current generation Playstation and XBox consoles. Ends July 7

Kickstarter - Stars of Empire-Second Edition Steampunk VSF RPG by Terry Sofian, Stars of Empire is a hard science Victorian Science Fiction/Steampunk role playing game. We will be producing the Land Fighting machines book for the HQC Universe, over 100 designs, 3D graphics, histories, orders of battle and tables of organization and equipment and color schemes! The book should run about 300 pages and will be out by June 2016. Ends July 4

Kickstarter - Steam Court (card game) by Tantrum House, Engineer your way to the top in this gateway card game set in a steampunk universe for 3-10 players. Using their dealt hand of gear cards, players try to take tricks with the ultimate goal of being the first to play all their cards. The Queen rewards such displays of skill by snatching up the most successful engineer as her own. Ends June 27

Review - Ironcast, game from Steam, Ironcast is set in the 1886s, during a war gone mad and having gone on for nearly a decade between the English and the French. The player controls one of the eponymous Ironcast: a machine of war roughly 20 feet tall, and covered with all manner of projectile and energy weapons.

Read - Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear , A tale set in late 19th-century steampunk Seattle finds orphaned Karen working in a high-quality bordello, where she confronts a powerful man who owns a dangerous mind-control machine.

Read - Tesla's Signal by L. Woodswalker , Electric Wizard...Mad Scientist...Public Enemy Number One!Nikola Tesla has a unique affinity for electric current...he can visualize the unseen...he speaks with beings of light. In 1899, he receives a message from “Mars”. When he meets the alien visitors, he finds their agenda not what he had expected. And they require his scientific expertise to further their aims. Then things start to go wrong--and “mad scientist” Nikola himself is blamed. He and his brilliant colleague Clara must go on the run from alien captors and human authorities alike.

Read - The Tablet of Destinies by Joseph A. Lovece , Welcome to the Middle East! Famous British archeologist Simon Birch has disappeared, taking with him the fabled Tablet of Destines, stolen from young inventor Frank Rude, Jr. With his companions Charlie Bull, Inanna Rude, Denver Doll and orphans PS and Kurt aboard his airship Thunderbird, Frank races through Egypt and the Arabian peninsula to fabled Eridu, the navel of the world. Will he be able to stop Birch from unleashing the tablet's deadly secrets? And will British super spy Jean Ember Myth help them retrieve the tablet, or keep it for herself?

Read - The Aether Alchemist by Ava Morgan , New Britannia, 1839: Chemist Miriam Brehane makes aether formulas for a variety of professional uses. She thought that one secret formula, supposedly capable of fueling machines without coal or oil, was a legend, lost in her family's vaults in far away Ethiopia. But one day, a mysterious cedar box arrives at her doorstep with half of the formula inside.

Read - The Diabolical Miss Hyde by Viola Carr , Dr. Eliza Jekyll, haunted by her father's elixir that can transform her into wild and impulsive Lizzie Hyde, must solve the case of a London serial killer before her secret second self is revealed. In an electrified Victorian London, Dr. Eliza Jekyll is a crime scene investigator, hunting killers with newfangled technological gadgets. She will need every advantage available to catch a terrifying new psychopath splattering London with blood.

Read - Death at Dinner by L. A. Nisula , Cassie Pengear did not want to spend her evening acting as a parlor maid even if the house was in Mayfair, but her landlady’s friend was desperate and it was only night. But then one of the guests collapsed at the table. Now poison is suspected and the cook is convinced she’s the main suspect and will be locked away if Cassie doesn’t solve the death at dinner.

Read – Steam by d. S. Arnauld , The teens at Nexum House are worse than prisoners, they are ‘debtors,’ the youth of England forced to pay for their family’s crimes. Conditions are harsh. The hierarchy among the workers is rigidly enforced. And the guards perform terrible experiments on the weakest of the population. Few of the children survive, and none is foolish enough to fall in love.When Amelia arrives she sparks the fire of revolution. Daughter of a gambler and a scientist, the 16-year-old wants revenge for her parents murder. But not just against the killers. Amelia wants to start a catalyst that will change the world. She is highly intelligent, utterly determined, and extremely angry.Set in a world of goggles, gears and clockwork this is coming of age story unlike any you have ever seen.

Read - Rise of the Arcane Fire by Kristin Bailey , Amusementists are convening in London, and Meg is determined to join their ranks. But being the first girl in the Order has its difficulties, and with Will away in Scotland, Meg fears she can’t trust anyone but herself. Her worries are only supported by the sabotage happening at the academy, with each altered invention being more harmful than the last.

May 18 - May 24, 2015Read - Infinity Coil by Marty Chan , Now a fugitive from Demon Watch, young Ehrich Weisz hides in the underbelly of an alternate New York where immigrants from other dimensions mingle among Americans. Amid growing racial tensions, Ehrich searches for Kifo, the man who stole his brother's mind and locked it inside an ancient medallion. He poses as a stage magician to draw out Kifo's next target—the commissioner of Demon Watch. In the wings, an army awaits Kifo to accomplish his mission so interdimensional soldiers can invade New York. Ehrich is willing to risk the outbreak of war to save his brother, but he must decide whether or not he can betray his friends.

Read - The Monster Book of Manga Steampunk by Jorge Balaguer , This easy-to-follow guidebook brings to life more than thirty avant-garde manga characters fit for a steampunk universe where fantasy, science, and history collide. Through advanced illustration techniques and step-by-step instructions, you'll learn how to easily transform rough sketches into intricately inked graphics

Read - Ghost in the Machine by S. J. Davis , Josephine, Bodhi, and Caroline, live in a scientifically advanced Victorian London as the Industrial Revolution is in full swing. Infrared goggles, dirigibles, and analog computers exist alongside bustles, parasols, and high tea.

Read - The Curiosity Chronicles by Ava Morgan , The Curiosity Chronicles: Books 1-3. Agents, spies, and tinkerers conspire in this collection of three romantic steampunk tales. This set contains novels The Lady Machinist, The Armored Doctor, and The Industrial Spy. The Curiosity Chronicles takes place in an alternative steampunk world during the 1830s-40s.

Cosplay Sewing from McCalls, Cosplay by McCall’s, the new cosplay sewing site from the McCall Pattern Company. We want to bring you the very best in patterns, sewing tips, and more, whether you’re making bodysuits or tailcoats, ball gowns or capes. Superheroes and sorcerers and magical girls, beginners and veteran stitchers alike are all welcome here.

Steampunk Roleplay and Collaborative Stories - Sign Up, The setting is 19th Century Europe, the late 1800’s. The world’s technology has progressed rapidly following the invention of the steam engine. In this RP I’m going to be taking a more classic approach to Steampunk so that means no real ‘fancy’ pieces of technology; I’m meaning more like floating airships, big industrial cities, that kind of thing. Across the continent in Europe, Grand Prix races are being arranged in the major cities, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Madrid etc. and registrations have started for those who are interested.

Read - Dawn of Steam: Rising Suns by Jeffrey Cook / Sarah Symonds , 1817 sees the first signs of recovery from the Year Without a Summer – and the beginning of the end of the journey of the airshipDame Fortuna. The crew first accept a unique offer from the Shogun of Japan, traveling with the Dutch contingent from the island of Dejima into the isolationist nation. From there, their travels will take them through the English colonies in Australia and India, into darkest Africa, and eventually home to England. Along the way, confrontations loom, and both personal secrets and national conspiracies are uncovered. By the time a future queen is born, nothing less than the fate of England and the direction of world events are at stake.

Read - Jack Cloudie by Stephen Hunt , Thanks to his father's gambling debts, young Jack Keats finds himself on the streets and trying to survive as a pickpocket. Following a daring bank robbery gone badly awry, Jack narrowly escapes the scaffold, only to be pressed into the Royal Aerostatical Navy. Assigned to the most useless airship in the fleet, serving under a captain who is most probably mad, Jack seems to be bound for almost certain death in the faraway deserts of Cassarabia.

Read - The Glass Galleon by Brian D. Lambert , Steam power has brought many benefits to the citizens of Her Majesty’s Britannic Empire, but also enemies jealous of her supremacy. Several times her military might has been tested, and each time she has prevailed.But now with the warships and armed war-blimps of her old enemy massing in the North Sea, Britain is facing its greatest time of peril – warfare of an unprecedented scale is poised to be unleashed.The mysterious and black-hearted Olivia is behind the smuggling of guns and ammunition into London to fuel internal riots and aid invasion, but most importantly of all the theft of Britain’s ultra-secret stealth ship, codenamed Glass Galleon

Read - The Squirrel Works by Brian D. Lambert / Collette J. Ellis , Olivia’s life is hanging by a thread. Hunted as a spy by the British Empire, and now by her own countrymen, she needs to do the impossible to survive – bring the Empire to its knees.The company forging a golden age of steam for the Empire is the Fanshaw & Fotherington Electro-Mechanical works. Destroy it and the British Empire will follow.

Historic People - Spotted Tail, As administrator and head chief of his people, he maintained an Indian police force that kept alcohol off his reservation, and condemned threats to force the Lakota to Indian Territory.

Historic People - Bull Chief, Bull Chief used non-traditional techniques for spiritual and hunting successes. He was distinguished in battle against tribal enemies and recognized as the bravest warrior during the height of the buffalo culture.

Historic People - Geronimo, An Apache shaman, Geronimo became chief after Cochise`s death. When he and his followers were captured in 1886, they were forced to cut their hair, wear Western clothes, and were shackled while being transported

Historic People - Sitting Bull, Originally a medicine man, Sitting Bull became the first principal chief of the entire Lakota Sioux nation in 1868. Remembered as one of the greatest Indian leaders

Blog - AETHER – An answer to our call to arms?, Aether is a steampunk inspired science fiction film set in a world of flying cities, massive airships, and ghost towns. On the tiny island of Deos, the citizens in the small town of Specter struggle to survive, as the wealthy floating city of Wavelinde looms overhead serving as a constant reminder of oppression. Meanwhile, a storm is building in the savage mines held by the Bruewen. War is coming.

Read - 1899: Journey to Mars by Billy Kring / George Wier , It’s been ten years since the ill-fated voyage of the Arcadia to the Moon. Agents from governments around the world are scrambling for the secret of the incredible space-faring ship, and will stop at nothing. It’s war in space and an even greater war on the distant world named for the God of War himself. And this time, the odds are even longer.

Read - The Reluctant Captain by Michael Tefft , When a mysterious explosion destroys the bridge of His Majesty's Airship Daedalus, Lt. Commander Malcolm Robertson, Chief Engineer, finds himself thrust into the role of Captain on a secretive mission to Russia.With an Airship full of British and Russian scientists whose intelligence is matched only by their egos, spies watching his every move, and a real saboteur on board, Malcolm must find a way to complete his mission and bring his crew home safely.

Read – Heartless by Samantha Allard , A Killer Stalks the Streets. Simone LeBeau is fearless. A messenger for the Hermes Guild, she travels via the rooftops delivering letters and parcels with the grace of a freed bird. A guardian to a small orphaned girl. The constant cause of concern to a former messenger with mechanic legs. Simone does what she has to do to survive in a world where the citizens of Dark Town are being murdered by a killer called the Heart Thief. Then she's caught up in a situation she can't control. The Heart Thief murders a woman footsteps away from Simone's front door. No-one else seems interesting in finding justice for her or any of the other victims. But what happens when the killer turns his attention to someone close to Simone?

Read - The Jesse James Omnibus by Craig Gallant / C. L. Werner , An omnibus of three novels - Honor Among Outlaws, An Outlaw's Wrath and Abundant Riches. All books are set in the world of Wild West Exodus; an alternative history set in the old west post-American Civil War where science and history meld against a struggle of humanity and dark forces

The Littmus Steampunk band will be at te Townsville Cultural Fest in Australia, TC Fest is a five-day festival celebrating the cultural depth of Australian society. Showcasing music, dance and creative arts, alongside international cuisine, sports and sideshows. Each year the festival involves over 300 creative arts, cultural, and community groups, making TC Fest the one of the most inclusive festivals in Australia

Read - Terror by Gaslight by John Manning Twenty tales of terror, dark fantasy, and macabre humor from authors in Canada and the United States spanning seven decades - 1860 thru 1929. Ten authors from What Scares the Boogeyman? return and are joined by ten new writers

Read - To The Heart Of The Nile: Lady Florence Baker And The Exploration Of Central Africa by Pat Shipman , recounts the courageous, adventurous life of Lady Florence Baker. Born in Transylvania and orphaned after the Hungarian revolution, "Barbara" was taken to an Ottoman harem and later sold at slave auction but then abducted by the second-highest bidder, a wealthy middle-aged English adventurer named Samuel Baker. Now independent, the unlikely couple set out for Africa to search for two English explorers who were on a quest to discover the Nile's source

Read - Wolves of the Northern Rift by Jon Messenger , On the northern continent of Ocker, King Godwin declared that no magical monstrosity would be allowed within their borders. The Royal Inquisitors were formed to investigate reports of mystical occurrences and, should they be found, to destroy them.

April 20 - April 26, 2015Game - Impossible Machines on iTunes, The Book of Impossible Machines is an interacive iPad/iPhone book, fully loaded with 3D objects that can be rotated to reveal its full dimensión, this book is part of the Impossible Machines series, with beautifully rendered graphics all with that steampunk flavor we love.

Game - Cogs, Cakes & Swordsticks, Collected Edition, Lynne Hardy’s game of steampunk pulp adventure, designed to be played in the comfort of your favourite tea shop with your friends, and requiring nothing more than your imagination, a pen, napkins and a sugar cube (should a six-sided die not be readily forthcoming).”

Blog - Colouring up Steampunk Cosplay, The Victorian era saw the invention of new dye and fabric technologies; in fact, this was one of the major marketing forces pushing the Industrialization of the Western World along at a breakneck speed. This was the era where the phenomenon of ‘fashionable’ colours came into its own.

Blog - Victorian-era Beaver Fashions: a Steampunk Perspective, Beaver were hunted for their fur, not just for fur coats, but for the superior millinery felt that can be made from beaver fur. Historically, the very best quality hats are made from beaver fur. It was this demand for beaver pelts in Europe that drove the animals to near-extinction in Europe, and encouraged the fur trade in Canada and America.

3D printed Steampunk cube gears, maker joefe says “All eight of the corners and even the center piece have been steampunked. For the large gears, I wanted to add another level, so I modified them to print as two captured parts where the middle is tied to the cube center while the outside moves. This allowed me to add some interesting aspects.”

Free steampunk ebook - Reanimatrix By S. R. Algee, With her new clockwork spider only a few weeks old, inventor Diana Rackham is between projects. A chance encounter at the pharmacy turns her interests in a new direction: the possibility of reviving the dead. But will this new endeavor be a success, or will curiosity get the better of the cat? Sequel to "Itsy Bitsy Spider".

Free steampunk ebook - Driftmetal by J.C. Staudt, In a shattered world of airships and windborne cities, Captain Muller Jakes' crew betrays him when his plot to steal a fortune in gravstone goes awry. A lost city, a deadly sabotage, and a series of narrow escapes will force him to choose between his freedom and the lives of thousands. A high-flying adventure full of gadgetry, treachery and intrigue; a pleasing blend of steampunk and cyberpunk.

Steampunk Games - In 80 Karten um die Welt , A game about a race around the world which is set at the end of the 19th century. In this game each player takes up one of the competing nations, and each nation sends a special steam-powered "Walamob" (Water-Land-Mobile) on the voyage around the world.

Steampunk Games - Incredible Expeditions: Quest for Atlantis , Explore with the eccentric Professor Pendergast and others daring enough to face bizarre encounters beyond the edges of the known world. Incredible Expeditions: Quest for Atlantis is a card game of deck building strategy for 1-5 players. Race against each other to be the first to uncover the secrets of the last Location, the Lost City of Atlantis, or band together to use your combined strength to face down Lovecraftian horrors and test your mettle against the hazards of expedition. Competitive, cooperative and single-player rules provide different play modes.

Steampunk Games - Zeppeldrome , is a humorous, puzzle, screw-your-neighbor game with a hazardous, modular board; and light-hearted cards used to help you or to mess with your opponents as you all race to be the first to travel the length of the airship raceway.

Steampunk Games - Mad Zeppelin , Mad Zeppelin is a fast-paced card game of sabotage, as you use your traitors to throw the most cargo off the Nostria and ruin the Emperor's plans. The player who destroys the most cargo wins, but you must assure you properly bribe the guards each turn, or your chances of sabotage may end at the point of a bayonet!

RJ-Romain Jerome Steampunk Tourbillon Watch, This new model draws its inspiration from the raw energy from machines and engines from the early 20th Century. The black-PVD case and lugs encase a 50mm Gunmetal steel bezel that has been brushed by hand. The complex dial reflects an imaginary retro-futuristic world and technical innovation.

Get your copy - Steel Lily by Megan Curd AVERY PIKE is a commodity. No, more than a commodity. Her existence is guarded at all costs. She's a water Elementalist, the strongest of her dwindling kind. She creates steam to provide energy to fuel Dome Four: the only thing standing between humanity and an earth ravaged by World War III. No steam, no Dome. No Dome, no life.

Get your copy - Mrs Danby and Company by Paul Magrs. When world-famous detective Nightshade Jones of Balcombe Street retires to Sussex to look after hornets, housekeeper Mrs Martha Danby packs her bags and sets off on a luxury cruise on the doomed SS Utopia. En route to the dazzling city of New York, she soon meets legendary vampire-slayer Abraham Van Halfling, who claims his demon-hunting days are over. But soon the pair are embroiled in a series of wild adventures

Twisted Skies card game - Airship Ambassador Expansion Set, features exciting new DIPLOMAT CARDS inspired by Steampunk's most famous community resource website The Airship Ambassador! Fully compatible with Twisted Skies this set allows you to bring out the full potential of Diplomat cards with exciting new Tech, Interrupt and Mission cards designed to power up the effectiveness of Diplomats in game play! These full color promotional cards are a great collectible or a fun add on to the already exciting Steampunk world of Twisted Skies.

Watch - Gentleman Robot VS Iron Man 1889, Here we have Gentleman Robot (John E. Floyd) and Ironman:1889 (Thomas Willeford) the epic battle of steam and radiation as the two duke it out at Wild Wild West Con 4 in Tucson, AZ!

Blog - The Steamfunk Canon book list, Here, you will not find Steampunk books that simply have a Black protagonist. No, these are books written by authors who proudly identify their work as Steamfunk and who skillfully deliver Funktastic stories in the genre.

Read - Julius & the Watchmaker by Tim Hehir , When Julius Higgins isn't running from Crimper McCready and his gang of bullies, he's working in his grandfather's bookshop. Until Jack Springheel, a mysterious clock collector, turns up looking for the fabled diary of John Harrison. Before he knows it, Julius becomes a thief and a runaway and makes a deal with Springheel that he will live to regret.

Read - Re:wired by Alex Keller , Young Adult, An old family, torn from power, wants to rule again. But their heir is dead, and only one man can give them a new one: Mandrake von Guggenstein.

Read - Ticker by Lisa Mantchev, When the surgeon who provided her with a clockwork heart is put on trial for murder, Penny Farthing's parents are kidnapped and Penny and her brother receive a ransom note demanding the research her parents kept on the procedures of her surgery.

Get your copy- The Shadow Revolution by Clay Griffith / Susan Griffith , As fog descends, obscuring the gas lamps of Victorian London, werewolves prowl the shadows of back alleys. But they have infiltrated the inner circles of upper-crust society as well. Only a handful of specially gifted practitioners are equipped to battle the beasts. Among them are the roguish Simon Archer, who conceals his powers as a spell-casting scribe behind the smooth veneer of a dashing playboy; his layabout mentor, Nick Barker, who prefers a good pub to thrilling heroics; and the self-possessed alchemist Kate Anstruther, who is equally at home in a ballroom as she is on a battlefield.

Get your copy- The Iron Jackal: A Tale of the Ketty Jay by Chris Wooding , Join the crew of the Ketty Jay on their greatest adventure yet: a story of mayhem and mischief, roof-top chases and death-defying races, murderous daemons, psychopathic golems and a particularly cranky cat. The first time was to clear his name. The second time was for money. This time, Frey's in a race against the clock for the ultimate prize: to save his own life.

Get your copy- Gossamer Wing by Delphine Dryden , Super spy Charlotte Moncrieffe enters into a marriage of convenience with Makesmith Baron Dexter Hardison as a cover when she sets out to recover long-lost documents from the Palais Garnier in her stealth dirigible.

Steampunk Games - 011, It’s year “011” in an alternative 19th century. The Inscrutable Organ of Eternity is hidden somewhere in Turin, and it’s the only instrument that can prevent the coming Ragnarök. Only one of the 8 Characters in the game is the “Chosen One” who can play the Organ. One of the others, meanwhile, has been possessed by the Spirit of Fenrir the Wolf, and will try to prevent the Chosen One from reaching the Organ. The goal of the game, is to identify and deliver the Chosen One and the song of Making (which is composed as part of the game play) to the Inscrutable Organ of Eternity before the 12th hour.

Steampunk Games - Steam Donkey The year is 1897 and to celebrate sixty years of the reign of Queen Victoria and bring much needed solace to the Country's weary workers, four seaside resorts vie with each other to be the grandest and most opulent, worthy of a Royal visit from Her Majesty herself. The latest in steam technology will be on display to attract and transport visitors to the hotels and guest houses that line the seafronts. Amusements and monuments will be created to edify and delight the visiting holiday-makers. You, as the designer of these developments must complete your resort first and claim your rightful place as Chief Architect, by Royal Appointment!

Steampunk Games - Dystopian Wars , The world of Dystopian Wars is similar to our own, but subtly different. The year is 1870 and the Industrial Revolution occurred decades earlier than in our own world. Technology is far advanced, and in many cases, unrecognisable, which has led to the development of fantastic naval vessels, hulking land ships and terror from the skies in the form of airships and war balloons.

Steampunk Games - Grind, Suspended just above a lake of seething magma, this flamescorched arena is ground zero for the most brutal sport ever created—Grind! Here 10-ton, ash-spewing, steam-powered robots called steamjacks fight to move a giant, spiked ball into the other team’s goal. Using every weapon in their arsenal, these steamjacks slam, smash, and crush their way through the opposition as they tirelessly slug it out for the title. Steampunk Games - Nautilus , The players are building a research station at the bottom of the sea, trying to find Atlantis, recover sunken treasures, and extract raw materials.

Historic People - Satank, a member of the Kiowa tribe. He was a leader of men, warrior, and as a shaman, he possessed strong medicine in war and peace. Satank was a principal chief of the Kiowas for many years.

Historic People - Cochise, the chief of the central band of the Chiricahua Apaches, a nomadic people of the American Southwest.

Historic People - Lone Wolf, a principal chief of the Kiowa, following the death of Chief Dohäsan. He was a leader among his tribe's militant minority during the U.S. Army's armed pacification in the 1860s and '70s, the period of violent domestication from nomadic to forced reservation life dictated by the federal government.

Historic People - Bog Foot, a man of peace, and best known among his people for his political and diplomatic successes. He was skilled at settling quarrels between rival parties, and was often in great demand among other Teton bands.

Get your Copy - Shanghai Sparrow by Gaie Sebold , Shanghai Sparrow is a Far Eastern steampunk tale of espionage, distant empires and thrilling exploits, with a dynamic heroine. Eveline Duchen is a thief and con-artist, surviving day by day on the streets of London, where the glittering spires of progress rise on the straining backs of the poor and disenfranchised. Where the Folk, the otherworldly children of fairy tales and legends, have all but withdrawn from the smoke of the furnaces and the clamour of iron.

Get your Copy- Rings of Anubis by E. Catherine Tobler , As the nineteenth century turns into the twentieth, the world looks to a future of revolutionary science and extraordinary machines. Archaeologist Eleanor Folley looks back to Egypt's ancient mysteries and her mother's inexplicable, haunting disappearance. Agent Virgil Mallory, a man with ghosts and monsters of his own, brings evidence of a crime, taking them both on a thrilling adventure that carries them from Paris to Egypt, and from the present to the ancient past.

Get your Copy- All Men of Genius by Lev AC Rosen , A steampunk adaptation of Twelfth Night and The Importance of Being Earnest is set in an alternative-world London and follows ambitious young scientist Violent Adams' efforts to disguise her gender and gain an education from a renowned male-only college.

Get your Copy- The Constantine Affliction by T. Aaron Payton , In an alternate 1864, as the Constantine Affliction spreads throughout London, killing some of its victims and transforming others into the opposite sex, Pembroke "Pimm" Hanover and journalist Ellie Skyler discover that the key to the malady may be a link between a crime boss and a royal scientist.

New Blog - SteamWomen, dedicated to spotlighting the amazing women who make the Steampunk scene tick. Every week we aim to feature makers, designers, musicians, writers, artists, producers, and other creative women - and look at who they are, what they do, and what inspires them!

Kickstarter - Beneath a Burning Sky - a Novel by Jonathon Burgess, Beneath a Burning Sky is a steampunk fantasy novel, the last in my Dawnhawk Trilogy. It's fully written at over 120,000 words, awaiting final revisions and editing. I just need your help to produce the work to completion. All funds gathered for this project go towards finishing this story as a professional independently-published novel, available in both digital and physical formats. Ends April 18

Get your copy - Liberator by Richard Harland , After the Filthies seize control of the massive juggernaut Worldshaker, now called Liberator, members of the former elite, the Swanks, remain to teach them, but class differences continue to cause strife and even Col and Riff may be unable to bring unity, in the follow-up to Worldshaker .

Get your copy - Song of the Slums by Richard Harland , What if they'd invented rock 'n roll way back in the 19th century? What if it could take over the world and change the course of history? In the slums of Brummingham, the outcast gangs are making a new kind of music, with pounding rhythms and wild guitars.

Steampunk Games - Wiraqocha , In 1895, exploring Amazonia, Auguste Copperpot discovered a gate to a lost valley, occupied by a primitive civilisation. Wiraqocha Valley was the name he gave to this remote Eden. This world enclosed a treasure that was going to revolutionize modern sciences, namely the Somnium, an orange luminescent crystal showing amazing properties. It can be used as fuel, affects matter and even time. Immediately, this virgin land became a new Eldorado for European colonists. Empress Victoria II decided to send several conglomerates to share this promised land and reap the fruits to her benefit. Zeppelin fleet, full of scientists, adventurers and looters, clouded the Atlantic sky.

Steampunk Games - Soldier's Companion , a good, solid set of 19th-century colonial miniatures rules. The basic system mechanics are are an elaboration of those used in Sky Galleons of Mars, giving a solid basis for land, aerial, and aquatic combats. While allowing for the addition of land juggernauts, combat tripods, and aerial fliers, the rules work just as well for a rag-tag British column fighting its way through the passes of the Northwest Frontier. Soldier's Companion combines the excitement of the 19th-century colonial wars with the adventure of Space:1889.

Steampunk Games - Iron Stars , a game of space combat in an age of steam and steel. Set in a fictional universe based loosely on the writings of H. G. Wells and other fantasists, it provides a back story and ship designs from an alternate history in which the Martian Invasion actually happened, the ether is all-pervasive, and Cavorite is a reality. But, as with Starmada and other Majestic Twelve Games products, the focus is on players' imaginations; a clear and concise ship construction system is provided so you can pit your own space dreadnoughts against the likes of the Royal Navy Ether Squadron or the German Äthermarine.

Steampunk Games - Ironclads and Ether Flyers , Ironclads and Ether Flyers is a set of 19th Century Aeronaval miniatures rules. It focuses on battles between seafaring battleships and aerial gunboats and is set in the Space: 1889 universe.

Archaia To Bring Lantern City To Comics, Archaia Entertainment today announced that they are launching a new series, Lantern City, based on a property that is already in development as a TV series and has seen a novel -- Rise: An Illustrated Novel -- released.

Get your copy- Worldshaker by Richard Harland , Col Porpentine is being groomed as the next Commander of Worldshaker, a juggernaut where elite families live on the upper decks while the Filthies toil below, but when he meets Riff, a Filthy girl, he discovers how ignorant he is.

Get your copy- A Red Sun Also Rises by Mark Hodder , Aiden Fleischer, a bookish priest, finds himself transported to an alien world. With him is Miss Clarissa Stark, a crippled hunchback of exceptional ability, wronged by an aristocrat and cast out from society. On the planet Ptallaya, under two bright yellow suns, they encounter the Yatsill, a race of enthusiastic mimics who shape their society after impressions picked up from Clarissa's mind, and create a faux London

Get your copy- Once upon a Time in Hell by Guy Adams , Book two of The Heaven's Gate Trilogy. Wormwood has appeared and for twenty four hours the gateway to the afterlife is wide open. But just because a door is open doesn't mean you should step through it. The afterlife has an agenda of its own and with scheming on both sides of reality, the revelations to come may change the world forever.

Steampunk Games - Kings of Air and Steam , The process is simple: Factories produce the goods (machinery, textiles, chemicals, food, and luxuries) that are coveted by the city folk. Airships – forbidden from landing in the cities but capable of carrying cargo over great distances – must be used to gather those goods and deliver them to depots along the rail network. Trains then haul the goods to the cities that want them, earning cash for the competitor who gets there first!

Steampunk Games - City of Iron , 2-4 players compete to build up a small nation in a world of machines, magic, and money. Become the leader of one of four rival nations: the industrious humans, the toad engineers, the scholarly Cresarians, or the clever hogmen. Produce goods like machine parts and bottled demons to gain wealth, or research steam-age technology and recruit mercenaries to control the continent. If you want to establish new cities, you’ll build schooners or airships to reach faraway lands and flying islands. Your cities have limited capacity, so you’ll have to decide what to keep and what to demolish when building advanced structures. The future of a nation is in your hands. Build unbreakable foundations for an empire or disappear into the dusty pages of history.

Steampunk Games - Machina Arcana (2014), players take on the role of explorers who are investigating an ancient subterranean complex of unknown origin. They face monsters inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos in a steampunk setting. The adventurers collect equipment, interact and utilize their environment, fight monsters, and immerse themselves in the rich narrative elements.

Steampunk Games - Gaslight , G.A.S.L.I.G.H.T. (Glorious Adventures in Science Loosely Involving Generally Historical Times) is a set of miniatures rules for conducting skirmishes in the Victorian era. Bands of stouthearted Extras are led by Main Characters -- from the streets of London to the hills of South Africa and from the glorious charges of the Crimea to the maelstrom of the American Civil War. The rules are written with the works of Victorian science fiction authors in mind, such as Wells, Verne, and Haggard. In addition to standard colonial era actions, special rules are included for adding various science fiction elements to the plot, including, but not limited to, steam conveyances, fabulous inventions, glorious weapons, and strange creatures from the depths of the jungle or the core of the Earth.

Steampunk Games - Leviathans , Leviathans is a game published by Catalyst Game Labs that simulates combat between warships that have taken to the air in an alternate history 1910. The king leviathans, the battleships, are the largest vessels. Maneuvering in support are the smaller ships of light cruisers, destroyers, and others ships. Will you captain your fleet for king and country, expanding your nation's power and becoming legend? Or will you fall from the sky, forgotten?

Get your copy- The Diabolical Miss Hyde by Viola Carr , A debut entry in a steampunk series inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's classic follows the experiences of Dr. Jekyll's daughter, a forensic scientist in Victorian London who uses newfangled gadgets to catch a terrifying psychopath.

Steampunk Games - Munchkin Steampunk , adds gears, goggles, and steam-powered robots to the backstabbing and goofy humor of the long-lived card game Munchkin, a game in which you kick down doors, battle monsters, gain treasure, and try to reach level ten before anyone else. Munchkin Steampunk is a standalone game, but it can be integrated with any Munchkin game or expansion.

Steampunk Games - Mission: Red Planet , players work as mining companies compete to send astronauts to Mars in order to colonize and mine for recently discovered materials. Over the course of 10 rounds, players play one of their special agents every round to help fill the rockets heading to Mars with their own astronauts while simultaneously working to prevent their opponents from doing the same. Once landed, these astronauts must gather to control specific regions of the planet, each yielding one of the three resources: Celerium, Sylvanite, or Ice. After rounds 5 and 8, players gain score tokens for every region where they control the majority of the astronauts. At the end of the game, players score one final time, adding any bonuses received from Discovery Cards and Bonus Cards. The player with the most score tokens at the end controls Mars, and all the riches it can bring!

Steampunk Games - Planet Steam , a board game in which two to five players take the roles of entrepreneurs in a steampunk boomtown, racing to assemble equipment, claim plots of land, extract resources, and accumulate riches. After harvesting resources using tanks and converters, players must buy and sell those resources in a volatile and ever-shifting market. The one who earns the most income will, in the end, be victorious. However, only through shrewd resource management and clever manipulation of supply and demand can a player reign supreme!

Steampunk Games - Warmachine , a steam-powered miniatures combat-- is a table-top miniatures game published by Privateer Press. Players take on the role of an elite soldier-sorcerer known as a warcaster. While a warcaster and his army is a formidable force on the battlefield, a warcaster's true strength is in their ability to magically control and coordinate the actions of their mighty warjacks steam-powered combat automatons that represent the pinnacle of military might in the Iron Kingdoms.

Steampunk Games - Sky Galleons of Mars , a board game set in the fantasy Victorian era of space exploration. It is essentially the tactical ship combat game for the "Space: 1889" role-playing system.

Steampunk Makers Shopping Guide, Browsing our group is like shopping in a mercantile full of shops. Our Steampunk Workshop & Library members have created a variety of fine steampunk gift items, including books from our Writers Group.

Get your copy - Clockwork Lies: Iron Wind by Dru Pagliassotti , Taya, the metal-winged icarus whose investigation helped defeat a plot against Ondinium and its populace, is assisting her exalted husband Cristof Forlore on his first ambassadorial mission. They must learn about Mareaux’s experiments in airship technology and determine whether the ostensibly scientific vehicles might be used for warfare — a taboo for Ondiniums, whose domination of the air is tempered by a deep cultural abhorrence toward airborne weapons after the devastation of the Last War a thousand years ago.

Get your copy - Romulus Buckle & the City of the Founders by Richard Ellis Preston,Jr. , In a postapocalyptic world of endless snow, eighteen-year-old Captain Romulus Buckle and the stalwart crew of the Pneumatic Zeppelin must embark on a perilous mission to rescue their kidnapped leader, Balthazar Crankshaft, from the impenetrable City of the Founders. Steaming over a territory once known as Southern California—before it was devastated in the alien war—Buckle navigates his massive airship through skies infested with enemy war zeppelins and ravenous alien beasties in this swashbuckling and high-octane steampunk adventure.

Get your copy - How to Draw Steampunk by Rod Espinosa , Does the challenge of sketching steampunk material leave you in a fog? Feel like an anachronism when it comes to creating old tech out of its time? Be not daunted at depicting derring-do and high adventure! These intrepid illustrators will outfit you with all the brass, glass, and leather you need to make your steam-tech soar and shine - or drip and rust, as the case may be. Stoke the coal, fire up the boilers, and get your art in gear!

Historic Recipe - Kulich - Russian Sweetbread Recipe, also know as "Easter cake" is a kind of Easter bread traditional in the Orthodox Christian faith. Kulich is usually put into the basket, decorated with colorful flowers and blessed by the priest during the Easter service.

Pubslush - The Steam Wars, starts Feb 1, a book crowdfunding project. The discovery of electricity changed the world. But some fear what it might bring. When a contingent of steam-powered enthusiasts band together, the Steamers and Electros soon find themselves locked in a battle, not just for power, but for the fate of all mankind.

Get your copy-The Doctor and the Dinosaurs by Mike Resnick , Welcome to the birth of American paleontology, spearheaded by two brilliant men, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh, two men whose genius is only exceeded by their hatred for each other's guts. Now, with the aid of Theodore Roosevelt, Cole Younger, and Buffalo Bill Cody, Doc Holliday must save Cope and Marsh not only from the Comanches, not only from living, breathing dinosaurs, but from each other. And that won't be easy.

Steampunk Games - Steampunked Time Machine, The first player to assemble their 9-part time machine and end their turn wins the game. However, this is easier said than done. This is the point in the game where the fur really starts to fly! Action cards are played in rapid succession as your opponents attempt to break and disassemble your machine in order to get parts for their own creation. The only way to assure your victory is to employ a multitude of strategies including, hording parts, conserving energy, forming alliances, and, of course, breaking said alliances at the most opportune moment!

Steampunk Games - Steampunk: War Baloon, The fight is between war balloons (represented by cardboard stand ups). It plays on a squared / checked map. " In Italy, about 15 years ago, Hobby e Work released a boardgame called "Steampunk War baloon" buyable in every newsstand of our country. Every week was released a new number, a part of the whole project. Unluckily after few weeks (3 numbers) the project was retired from newsstands and failed. "

Steampunk Games - Damned Hot Work: The Steampunk Miniatures Game, a miniatures wargaming system primarily designed for 25/28mm models, and is a fast and simple game that should allow large battles to be fought easily in one evening - or a couple of skirmishes - recreating the drama of combat with dice rolls and a deck of cards.

Steampunk Games - Wolsung Steampunk Skirmish Game , a universe where unusual ladies and gentlemen struggle to achieve power, fame and wealth. It’s a world of steam, magic, huge industrial factories and weird inventions. Wolsung SSG is miniature skirmish wargame, which uses 28mm miniatures, dice and standard dec of cards. During game players try to defeat their opponents, or fulfill specified scenario objectives.

Listen - Ratchet RetroCast Episode 43, Joining Q, Strangeway and Ratchet are our DC experts Jon and Jess Carroll! For the Clockwork Conversation we are joined by special guest Kevin D Steil as the Airship Ambassador!

Get your copy - Fiendish Schemes by K.W. Jeter, After accepting congratulations for his late father's grandest invention--a walking, steam-powered lighthouse-- George Dower is enticed by the prospect of financial gain into a web of intrigue with ominously mysterious players who have nefarious plans of which he can only guess. If he can locate and make his father's Vox Universalis work as it was intended, his future, he is promised, is assured.

Get your copy - The Kingmakers by Clay Griffith / Susan Griffith , The epic Vampire Empire trilogy rushes to a heart-wrenching conclusion of honor and love, hatred and vengeance, sacrifice and loss. As Empress Adele unleashes a weapon capable of vampire genocide upon the vampire clans of the north, Prince Gareth plans a desperate strike against their lord--his brother Cesare--to end the war once and for all.

Get your copy - Dream London by Tony Ballantyne , In Dream London the city changes a little every night and the people change a little every day. Captain Jim Wedderburn has looks, style and courage by the bucketful. He’s adored by women, respected by men and feared by his enemies. But the towers are growing taller, the parks have hidden themselves away and the streets form themselves into strange new patterns. Everyone is changing, no one is who they seem to be, and Captain Jim Wedderburn is beginning to understand that he’s not the man he thought he was...

Steampunk Games - Skyway Robbery, As a giant airship travels to various far-flung locales, rival gangs compete to pull off daring heists. Your job is to recruit various skilled criminals to join your gang as you plan to take down fortified locations and steal the loot guarded within. You may also complete smaller jobs on the airship itself as it travels across the globe. Set in a steampunk world, Skyway Robbery offers high adventure and cunning, card-driven game play.

Steampunk Games - Steam Works, In the steampunk worker placement game Steam Works, you'll put your mechanics to work collecting components and power sources, then you'll literally build devices by assembling those sources and components. What's more, those devices in turn become action spaces for other players to use!

Steampunk Games - Steampunk Rally, by Roxley Game Laboratory. Steampunk Rally is a strategy game that incorporates steampunk as more than just a bit of chrome. Using a unique dice-placement mechanism, players take on the roles of famous inventors from the turn of the last century like Nikola Tesla and Marie Curie, constructing fantastical contraptions that make use of steam, heat and electricity in an attempt to win a no-holds-barred race through the Swiss alps.

Steampunk Games - Teramyyd: Earthsphere , In the game, you play a skyship captain, adventuring across the land to secure the resources you need to complete quests, defeat creatures, plunder the ship of your fellow captains, or to defeat the fearsome Kobolos dragon. Where lies your destiny? The choice is yours!

Steampunk Games - The World of Smog, On Her Majesty's Service , Set in the fantastic steampunk The World of Smog created by Panache Animation, On Her Majesty's Service is a stylish board game for two to four competing players. You'll need to navigate the rotating tiles that make up the game board, trading Ethers and Artefacts in order to fulfill the quest set by Queen Victoria, all the while dealing with the Agents of the Shadow Master.

Get your copy - In Her Majesty's Name: Steampunk Skirmish Wargaming Rules by Craig Cartmell / Charles Murton , It is 1895 and the world is in turmoil. In the decades to come, historians will reflect upon the cause of this state of affairs and many will point squarely at Charles Babbage. The perfection of first his Difference Engine, and then his Analytical Engine, gave the new scientific establishment in the Great Powers the tool they had so long needed in order to make a dramatic leap forward. The ability to make huge and repeatable sets of complex calculations revolutionized the world.

Get your copy - The Secret of Abdu El Yezdi by Mark Hodder , Burton and Swinburne return in a new series featuring a steampunk detective duo follows the 1840 assassination of Queen Victoria and finds England's rulers receiving guidance from the Afterlife to promote peace only to have a groundbreaking alliance sabotaged by the kidnappings of high-ranking officials.

Steampunk Games - Captain's Wager, players take on the roles of rogue airship captains sending their pirate crews off on adventures in search of treasure. Problematically, several captains often show up for the same adventure. So how shall we figure out who gets what loot? We’ll gamble for it of course. That’s the pirate way!

Steampunk Games - Clockwork Kingdom , a game in which each player takes the role of a lord attempting to claim the throne in the wake of the king's death. To start the game, each player has a small army of loyal steam-powered automatons to do their bidding. Each player must choose where to send his servants, whether to get supplies from the market, build useful contraptions in the workshop, or even attempt to acquire powerful alchemy stones, all the while warring with opponents in a number of battlefields in an attempt to control the kingdom by force.

Steampunk Games - Clockwork Wars an epic board game of conquest, discovery, and espionage from Eagle Games. In Clockwork Wars, 2-4 players command a unique race of creatures in a tense war set in an alternate universe where magic and steam-era technology collide. Take control of the human "Purebreeds", or one of three hybrid races (Troglodytes, Rhinochs, and Mongrels). Your goal is to vanquish your foes and accumulate the most victory points through seven turns of play. You earn points by fighting for control of territories that contain valuable natural resources. To win these battles, you need manpower gained by seizing villages and developing them into cities. Invest in research and discover astonishing new technologies, like magical Golems, an Analytical Engine, and the wondrous Spire of the Gods. Position your troops, research powerful discoveries, employ espionage, and conquer your enemies to win the game!

Steampunk Games - Nautilus Industries , players take on the role of an enterprising business owner, with each trying to exploit the riches of the sea as well as the marketplace to earn the most money by the end of the game. Players take a series of simple actions, such as programming a mining robot, increasing warehouse capacity, swapping mining zone order, or purchasing stocks.

Steampunk Games - Nemo's War, Can you command the Nautilus on its year-long cruise to destiny? Can you fend off giant squids, discover the South Pole, the Arabian Tunnel or the lost city of Atlantis? Can you scourge the high seas and create enough fear in the great maritime powers to free the oppressed colonial peoples of the world? There really is a whole new world to of adventure to explore and master when you are fighting Nemo’s War.